Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR has a Larger Circulation in the Homes ; of Washington than all the Other Papers of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the Interests of c ALL THE PEOPL : of WASHINGTON; does not . Strive to Divide the Community into Classes,. . and Array one class Against the others; Contains the Latest and General News; and Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. It Literally Goes Everywhere, and is Read by Everybody. It is, therefore, as an Advertising ‘Medium without a Peer, Whether Cost or Measure oi. Publicity be Considered. . THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, ‘MAROH 31, 1896—TWENTY PAGES. Tt COMES SUDDENLY. j|CLERKS’ PENSIONS A Note of Warnt te Careful-Minded People. Searcely a day passes that one does not hear of men and women who were in perfect health be- ing suddenly stricken down by that terrible dis- ease, pneumonia. At no time of the year is this dangerous com- plaint so extremely prevalent as during the present season. There are constaut changes; one day Is as mild as summer, thé next is bitterly cold. The very air Is filled with disease and the slightest exposure often results in pneumonia. It is a dis- ease that comes suddenly, and ft fs all the more dangerous because it comes unannounced. A tick- ling in the threat, a tightness in the chest, a difficulty in breathing and a feeling of weakness, sll may mean the beginning of pneumonia. It is above all things a disease that requires prompt treatment, for if a reaction is brought about the danger may soon be over, if not, the end may be near. Any physician who is called in a case of pneumonia prescribes a stimulant instantly; but it is always some reliable stimulant, such as pure whiskey—all else is uselees. It ts precisely for this reason that so many Physicians prescribe that standard and reliable whiskey known as Duffy's pure malt. It has saved the lives of thousands who were on the high road to pneumonia in its worst form and it has both prevented and cured the most dangerous forms of pulmonars complaints. As a great strengthening, vitalizing remedy it has never been equaled. Be sure that you get Duffy's pure malt, no matter how much you may be urged to try something cheaper. $100—BICYCLES—$100 OUNULLY & IA PERY MPG. "sy 1th BW, div-1s,cott s ywh duff, relieve itching scalp, stop bair falling, produce a fine growth of whiskers and mustaches, eyelashes and eyebrows, and restore gray and fad heir to its original color. €. D. LORIMER & CO., Baltimore, Md. mh9-1m* FREE. 0 BALD HEADS! e will mail on application free information to grow bair on bald heads, remove scurf and dan- THE SOURCE OF MALARIA. An Investigntion That Shows It is Oftener In the Water Than the Air. From the Medical Journal. The investigation on the source of ma- laria has had the writer's attention for over two years, and im that time a large amount of clinical testimony has been col- lected from all known malarial districts in North America; the final report, however, will hardly be ready for publication for some months, but from the work already completed certain facts have been obtaimed which will be embodied in this short no- tice. The introduction of artesian wells, first by the railroad companies who desired a Jarger supply of water than had hitherto been ‘ailable, and the accidental use of that water by the people in the immediate vicinity, soon produced a marked diminu- tion of malarial trouble in those localities. The artesian supplies were, on the whole, so satisfactory to the railroads that their introduction became very‘ rapid, and in a few years most of the South Atlantic lines depended upon this source of water sup- ply. The evidence that in the exclusive use of the deep-seated waters there was entire immunity from malarial trouble was ap- pareatly so incontestable that I determined upon a critical examination of all waters known to produce malaria and those that in malarial districts were proof against it; this examination is not only chemical, but biolegical and pathological. In the present state of our knowledge we do not expect to be able to draw a sharp line between waters that produce malaria and those proof against it by purely chem- ical analysis, nor, on the other hand, can we hope to identify by biological examina- tion the protozoa producing that trouble; but we may by the former succeed in isolat- ing certain toxic products peculiar to those waters only, and by the latter a certain line of testimony that, in conjunction Avith the chemical inves-igation, will yield very valuable results. The work thus far has prov-d satisfactory beyond expectation, and from the work already done, and the character and amount of evidence be- fore me, I am justified in stating that the lorg current of belief that the source of mataria is in the air is in error. The germ, which is of soil origin, is strict- ly a protozoa, and reaches Its highest de- velopment in low, moist ground, with a favorable temperature. Surrounded by the proper soil conditions, this protozoa passes from one stage of life into another with considerable rapidity, so that in the present state of our experimental knowledge it is impossible to identify it, nor is it probable that by*culture we shall be able to produce the accepted Laveran germ outside of the humin system. As a rule the potable water from the malarial districts is derived from driven wells not over twenty-two feet deep, in seil with clay or some other impervious substrata, which water is generally cool and palatable, often sparkling clear, but more frequently a little turbid. This water is filled with an incalculable number of these germs in all stages of development, and if used 2s a potable water they nat- urally find their way into the system through the alimentary channel. This pro- tozoa passes through so many forms or stages of life that in some stages it ig light enough to float and be transported by the moist air of low gvounds, but in this state it is comparatively harmless except under most extraordinary conditions; it is not until the surface water is used that the mischief begins, when, by reason of higher develipment, it has become much more virulent than that floating in the alr. A very short period of incubation is suffi- cient to develop a severe case of malarial fever in the newcomer who uses the surface water. From personal observation I know that the exclusive use of pure, deep-seated water affords entire immunity against malaria in sections of country where no white man dared live using <he surface water. Nor must it be understood that the exclusive use of pure water simply fortifies and strengthens the system against the attack of the germ. The water is the primary cause of infection, which acts as the direct carrier of the germ into the system through the intestinal tract. ‘The impression that malaria is caused by purely atmospheric influences has become so fixed in our minds that, unless we come in actual contact in the evidence produced in the use of pure water as against that heretofore used, the physician will, in all probability, be very slow to allow himself to be convinced that the word malarial nat ee os etae @ misnomer, and that a ; aqua, water) is the word that should he used to convey the pernictous effects known under the name of malarial fever. ——__+e+____ Mr. Edwin H. Uhl, the newly appointed ambassador of the United States, has ar- rived at Berlin. There Are Those Who Object to the Plan Proposed. OTHERS GIVE If THEIR APPROVAL Question Raised as to Its Consti- tutionality. ae eee THRIFT AND UONTHRIFT ———— The proposition to pass some sort of a bill providing a pension system for depart- ment clerks has been a sutiject of constant Giscussion for months among those most interested and likely to be most affected by the idea. No bill has yet been introduced in Congress that meets with entire ap- proval among the clerks. Even the Tawney bill, which emanated from the clerks them- selves, is criticised by many. There is, of course, a large number of thrifty, saving clerks, who do not need pensions to take care of them when old age comes on, for they have already provided for that them- selves. To such men or women the idea of being compelled to give up a percentage of their salaries for a pension fund is objec- tionable. They inzist they would be forced unjustly to carry other people’s burdens, to contribute by their thrift and self-denial to those who are prodigal and self-indul- gent. Yet it is also apparent that there are a large number of clerks who approve the pension idea. The Tawney bil) and the similar one in- troduced in the Senate by Mr. Davis pro- vide for the retirement and pensioning of government employes in the classified ser- vice, under certain conditions, after July 1, 1900, the pension fund to be created by withholding 2 per cent of the monthly sai- ary of every such government employe im the service. There are in all five bills be- fore Congress on the general subject of clerks’ pensions. Besides Mr. Towney, Sen- ator Shorp and Senator Procior each intro- duced bilis; in the House of Representa- tlyes, Wilson of Ohio and Powers of Ver- mont have also brought forward bills. Chairman Brosius of the House commit- tee on reform in the civil service sald to- day that his committee is now working to produce a bill providing a relief fund for superannuated clerks in the departments, the matter being directly in charge of the subcommittee of which Mr. Tawney of innesota is chairman. “I find taat there Is a pretty fair division of sentiment among the clerks for and against the bill," sald Mr. Brosius today. “T think the line of the division is one of age, as I find that the elderly clerks, as a rule, are favorable to the bill and that the most vigorous opposition comes from the youpger clerks. There is no doubt, however, that there is a great deal of sen- timent favorable to the bill, but I think that the question as to the advisability of legislation proposed is a serious one and will be given full consideration by the committee.” Clerks Favor It. : “The number of clerks who are now in favor of the pension bill,” said Mr. L. S. Mortimer, one of the veteran employes of the Post Office Department, “would today be greatly increased if the fact were gen- erally known that the House commitfee having charge of the various bills—the committee on reform in the civil service— had before it an amendment, and likely to be adopted, providing that any clerk who dies, is dismissed, or resigns, could draw the fund accumulated to his credit with 4 per cent interest per annum. I circulated a petition in the department, with the con- sent of the Postmaster General, and 116 of the clerks sigred it. The sentiment in fa- vor of the proposition is, of course, yet un- formed.” “The idea must be understood before it receives general indorsement. I presume a majority of clerks in government service are now in favor of the Tawney bill. Many cierks in the Post Office Department have told me they were sorry they had not signed the petition that went to the committee from here. “The Tawney bill would go into effect so far as the accumulation of the 2 per cent goes July 1, 1896. By July 1, 1900, the fund would amount to $1,200,000. At that time there would be 300 clerks in all the ex- ecutive departments eligible for compulsory retirement and seventy-five who could voluntarily retire. At the maximum pen- sion of $10 a month this would use but 0,000 of this fund, leaving $750,000 ac- cumulated for future use to meet with- drawais and a pcssible increase of the number of eligibles as the present civil sérvice system takes on age and stability, and men and women enter on government service, not*as a makeshift, but as a life employment, just as men enter the army or navy. Embracing Outside Clerks. “There is one feature of the proposition,” |» said Mr. Mortimer, “which is peculiar. A great majority of the old clerks in the de- partments are those of the higher classes of the service. It is perfectly natural that after twenty or thirty years of service by successive prcmotions these clerks should be receiving from $1,600 to $1,800 a year. They would therefore go on the pension roli for the higher grades of pension. The old- est clerks in the departments are to "be found in the State Department; then in the War, Navy gnd Post Office Departments, respectively. ‘There is one clerk in the State Department who has been there fifty years, “The proposition must have merit in it, for the cummittee has received a great many communications in favor of it, and among them a number from outside of the executive departments in Washington in the customs and postal service, asking that the Tawney bill be amended, so as to em- brace outside branches of the service. This proposition seems to meet with approval among members of Congress and is likely to become a feature of the measure. It will only make the fund the larger and extend the benefits of the system, without in any way increasing the burden of it. Of course this would not include postmasters or pub- lic servants of any kind outside of the civil service. A. Smaller Perceutage. Maj. Couper of the Interior Department expressed himself very positively in favor of the pension idea. “‘Speaking for myself,” he said, “I would be in favor of any bill pro- viding a pension for employes who have been a long time in the service. I think the percentage to be withheld from salaries as proposed by the Tawney bill is too large. Half of 1 ver cent would produce a very large fund when taken from thousands of clerks and upon a large amount of salaries in the aggregate. When you deal with per- centages as applied to salaries you are pretty apt to touch a man on a sore spot. Two per cent means $20 a year on a $1,000 salary. That $20 nowadays is worth as mouch as $40 was five years ago. At the seme time, if you take half of 1 per cent it only means $5 out of a $1,000 salary, and there is hserdly a clerk in the service thut would object to betting $5 once a year on this scheme. Now another thing, the max- imum pension proposed by all the bills be- fore Congress is entirely too large. Men are not going into this scheme as an in- vestment. “A large proportion of clerks don’t expect to be in the service twenty or thirty years. A very small proportion select the public service as a life employment. They would simply charge up what they put into the fund as so much charity, which might pos- sibly in the long run of events become an imsurance for themselves. Proposed Pensions Too Large. “It would be a farce to levy a heavy per- centage upon the great body of clerks, to give a man who had been drawing a $1,600 or an $1,800 salary for twenty years the wunificent pension of $100 a month for the rest of his life. That 1s as large a pension as a brigadier general would draw. I think $600 ought to be the maximum, ang the man who can't live on that dcesn’t desérve a pen- sion. As things are nowadays a man and his wife can live very nicely on $600 a year. I am also opposed to giving up anything to the clerk who is dismissed or resigned. Let the percentage be small, and the man who resigns from the public service because he can do better will not care to have his money refunded, and the man’ who is dis- missed because he is incompetent don’t de- serve to have it. He has already been paid more than he is worth. This is a sort of tentine idea, which may not be popular, but is grounded on good business sense, and would save a large amount of bookkeeping and numerous complications.” Questioning tile Justice of It. Said Joseph Trainor, the well-known vet- eran clerk of the sixth auditor's office, speaking of the ey bill, “It is not a voluntary scheme.ZiNo one would object to any number of go iment employes, in or out of the classf! service, ‘combining’ and putting 2 per gat of their salaries into a fund to pension, themselves with after the manner and cdadition of this proposed law. But it is pyoposed by this law to make all employes’ a certain class do so, whether they desiré to or not. “A voluntary scheme would not have arswered the purpores of those who con- cocted the scheme—worthy of the ablest and most unscrupulous financiers—which, by the way, in one form or other, has been projected for the past three or four years, though they think the form they have got it In now is the best that has ever been proposed; for that would not have com- pelled those to go into it who they know Inust furnish the means to constitute the fund, though they kncw, as well, they most likely will never receive a cent’s worth of benefit, from the very nature of things, from such a fund. Therefore, it must be a law. “It seems to me that a constitutional as well as a moral wrong is involved in the scheme. Has Congress the constitutional power to take a part of a government em- ploye’s wages and apply it to a purpose against his consent? It is cited on this point that Congress has, by law, taken or withheld a portion of the pay of the sol- diers of the regular army to establish the Soldiers’ Home near this city. I do not know how that was done unless the en- listed soldiers consented to it, nor do I know whether the constitutionality of the law was ever tested. But be that as it may, there is, perhaps, some difference in the relations between the government and the army and the government and its civil employes, and I do not conceive that the government has the right to do the same with the latter, if it had to do so, by re: son of some peculiar relations with the for- mer. Compulsory Contribution. “It is certainly wrong to despoil one of his goods without giving him every com- pensation or reparation therefor. Now, I have said it is impossible that any large per cent of those compelled to contribute to this fund should ever become benefi- ciaries of it. This, from the very nature of things. Many may die before the time comes when they would become benefi- ciaries. Notwithstanding the vaunted civil service reform, many may be dismissed the service before them; there is no certainty of teaure in the civil service as yet. The health of many may break down, or for many other reasons they may be compelled to leave the service. “Congress is trying to make a pension once allowed a vested right. Is such a pen- sion more of a vested right than salaries earned by government employes? And if you take away or withhold any portion of such earned salaries, are you not despoil- ing said employes of their goods if it be done without their consent? I think it may be safely calculated that not 10 per cent of the persons who enter the govern- ment service would ever reach the age or remain sufficiently long in the service to become beneficiaries of the scheme—per- haps not 5 per cent.” How It Would Work. “It {s proposed,” said John R. Weathers, an old clerk in the pension office, “by the bills now before Congress to retire disabled and superannuated government employes, and to provide for the continuance of a greater part of their salaries by a forced assessment of all those who continue in active service. A civil pension list to be met directiy from the public treasury is not proposed, for it fs known that such a measure would perish under popular dis- approval. But it would be far more just to meet such an outlay, unpopular and un- necessary as it may be, directly from the public coffers than to wrest itjall from the pockets of the unwilling employes them- selves. “It is providea in these charitable (2) schemes that every employe must surren- der, willingly or unwillingly, a portion of the pay that the government has con- tracted to give him, that his improvident fellow-employe may retire at the close of| a long term of well-paid service and live in comfort the rest of his weary life. Shades of Washington and Jefferson! What is the matter with the gpyerhment employ. he losing his martigod and responsi Can he no longer rovide for the vic tudes of temporal life? Is it necessary that he shall have a guardian to look for- ward and provide for him against the rainy day? What is there in the natural or inci- dental environments of the employe that he should become an object of charitable solicitude on the part of his employer? Why should he not be held to the same ac- countability for his stewardship that his brothers are who toil in the field and work- shop? Why this paternal spirit, this de- sire to ‘feather the nest’ of him who has been for, lo! these many years, the child of fortune? Is it the poor pay and suffer- ing and hazard attaching to such service that calls for this special recognition after years of endurance? A Case iu Point. “But, if such a scheme were proper or necessary, the means of meeting it are both inadequate and unjust. 5 “To illustrate this I will take an actual case. A clerk, forty-nine years of age, is now serving in his sixth year in govern- ment service. He has a family dependent upon his $1,000 salary. He is temperate and economical, and is paying a little more than $40 a year on a twenty-payment life endowment policy. The struggle is rather sharp, and he has little left for luxuries. He is daily surrounded by those who are better paid. Now, according to House bill 47714, this clerk must pay into the proposed retirement fund $20 a year for twenty-four years before he can voluntarily retire. He will then have reached the age of seventy- three years and paid into the fund $48U. He then retires and receives $750 a year for seven years, the limit of expectation, giv- ing him an aggregate pension of $5,250, or a het profit of $4,770. Magnificent invest- ment! But who pays this profit? The scheme is visionary and cruelly unjust —unjust because it proposes to take from the employe, against his will, the money he needs now for his own rightful investment. There is no proper necessity for such a law, and in self-defense I shail contend for its defeat.” Would It-Be Legal? “I do not believe,” said another clerk, “that this proposed law will ever be car- ried into force. It will be contested by the clerks, and I cannot believe it will be sanc- tioned by the courts. These members of Congress better bend their surplus energies to pass a law that will protect men and women in government service, when they have by efficiency obtained a salary com- mensurate with their ability, so that as long as they are competent to do the re- quired service they shall not suffer reduc- tion or dismissal, unless for flagrant abuses. The fruitful source of wrong and injustice by these summary dismissals will then be obviated, and the clerks not forced to ap- peal for public sympathy. The majority of clerks’ burthens ard ‘very heavy, their re- sponsibilities' are great in the support and education of their families, often on a meager salary, and :they are more worthy of commendaticn than censure for not, sav- ing what is required for every-day éxist- ence. There are beneficiary associations in all the departments’ that will keep them out of ‘potter's field’ when they die or an appeal for charity. ;. - “I would suggest that Senators and Con- gressmen should be included in the scheme. I have known ex-Senators who have died in the poor house, and Congressmen whom the people have dismissed who have had to borrow money to get home with. And department clerks have aided them to get to their homes. “This yearly attadk upon department clerks dictated by ignorance of their daily lives, and prejudice, ‘should cease. Young men whose lives are ruined in many in- stances by a position in government ser- vice and men of dissipated habits do incur obligations they do not and cannot repay. But the majority of department clerks are self-respecting men and women, self-deny- ing, self-sacrificing in their care for others, and they honorably cancel their obliga- tions. The clerks who' favor this tyrannical movement are those of high salaries and few obligations.” A Messtiager’s View. “I do not know if messengers are included in the proposed Jaw or not,” said a mes- senger'in one of the departments. “If not, why not? Iam willing that 3 per cent of my salary should be deducted each month and placed to my credit, if the proposed legis- lation becomes a law, so that when I am dismissed or incapacitated I will be sure to have something ahead. Paying $2 or 8% a month into this pension fund will not deter —— 4 me from saving a part of my earnings on my own account, if I am inclined or anxious to save. We all know it to be a fact that a very few government employes lay up any- thing during their tenure of office. Why? After they have paid their room and board bills and other incidental expenses, such as clothes, shoes, etc., and send a few dollars to relatives at home, very little, if anything, is left to be deposited in bank. Most of the opponents of the pension scheme place their opposition on the ground that the clerks and other employes can join any of the hun- Greds of different secret, benevolent and life insurance ussociations. That is true, and thousunds of employes belong to them, and their legal representatives reap the benefit at their death. I take it that the proposed legislation is for the benefit of the government employe while he lives, and not his legal representatives when he dies. There is a change of administration every four years, and hundreds and thousands are dismissed. We also know how men and women linger here in Washington after be- ing dismissed, expecting to be reinstated or get some other position, hoping against hope, uptil their shoes are wern thin and their clothes become shabby, and_as a last resort they are forced to go to their member of Congress and beg for transportation home. t the bill pass. Let it inciude all clerks urder the civil service. Then there will be no excuse for dismissed employes hanging around Washirgton, dunning Senators and Congressmen.” —_.__ AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA Regular Meeting of the Business Men's League. Police Court Cases und Other Notes of General Interest to Residents and Taxpayers. A regular meeting of the Business Men’s League was held in their rooms at the cor- ner of King and Washington streets, with President M. B. Harlow in the chair. After the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, President Harlow said that he had been in correspondence with some parties who wanted to establish a knitting factory here. This brought on a controversy cver the old cotton factory on North Wash- ington street. Mr. Burke said that he was quite certain that the owners of the prop- erty, who live in Baltimore, were getting tired of the burden of taxes which they pay annually to the city. ‘The report of the street improvement com- mittee was brought up, and quite a discus- sion was entered into. Mr. Eichberg said that as a taxpayer he was willing to make the start toward the improvement by ap- propriating $40,000. Dr. E. S. Leadbeater was opposed to bonding the city to make street improvements, as it was hard now to increase a man’s taxes, and Alexandrians are mostly poor people. Mf. George R. Hill and Capt. Charles King spoke in favor of issuing bonds to the amount of $200,000 for the improvement of the streets. President Harlow said that he was rot ashamed of the way Alexandria settled the debts she had contracted in past years. No person, he said, would invest a single dollar in Alex- andria, owing to the condition of its streets. After a long and general discussion, and, cn motion of Capt. Herbert Bryant, the following resolution was edoy-ted: “Resolved, That the city council be re- quested to submit to the freeholders of the city on the first Tuesday in June the ques- tion of the issue by the city of bonds to the amount of $200,000, to be used for the pur- pose of improvement of the streets and sewering the city.’ After which the meet- ing adjourned. Police Court. Business in police circles 1s picking up. Mayor Thompson this morning again had quite a lengthy docket. The first case called was that of Richard Burnett, charged with selling liquor on Sunday. He plead not guilty, but the evidence showed that he had sold whisky, and he was fined $22. Frank Shepperd, a colored cart driver, was charged with scattering mud on King street, for which he was find $1. James J. Gormon, a lineman of the Home Telephone Company, filled himself up on bad whisky yesterday afternoon and became disorderly. When Officer Dean arrested him he attempted to strike the officer with a broadax. He was fined 310. Minor Lawson, a neatly dressed young Washingtonian, came to this city yesterday and imbibed too freely of the intoxicating bowl, and became disorderly, for which he was fined $2.50. Charles Anderson, a colored section hand on the Southera raliroad, assaulted a fellow workman named Frank Parker with a poker, cutting an ugly wound in his head. He was fined $5. - James Beal, colored, was charged with selling liquor on Sunday, and without a license. He waa dismissed, as it was shown that he had bought the liquor in the saioon of Mr. Frederick Schwab. Frederick Schwab was fined $12 for selling Beal whisky on Sunday. Thomas J. Jackson, a colored hobo, was charged with breaking and entering a car of the Southern Railway Company. His case was continued until 7 o'clock tonight. Mike Thomas, who about a month ago made a brutal assault on his wife, an ac- ccunt of which appeared in The Star at the time, was recommitted to jail for ten days, to await the recovery of his wife. Charters Granted. Judge J. K. M. Norton of the corporation court yesterday granted the two following charters of ircorporation: The International Athletic Park and Amusement Company, the object of which is to establish a bicycle track and athletic field in Washington city. The capital stock of the company is placed at $50,000, divided into shares of $10 each. The officers of the company are J. P. Clark, president; 8. W. Steinmetz, vice president; W. S. Clark, treasurer; and Wm. S. McKnew, secretary. Mr. J. T. Cal- lahan is named as the local agent of the company. The Recorder Publishing Company, the object of which is to publish in Washington @ newspaper to be called the National Re- corder. The capital stock of the company is named at $10,000. Mr. C. C. Carlin is named as the local attorney for the com- pany, and the officers are: John Wedder- burn, president; A. L. Hughes, treasai and T. B, Crittendon, secretary. Notes. Sarepta Lodge of Odd Fellows will to- night have as their guests the members ef Central Lodge, No. 1, of Washington. Tne visitors are expected down on an early evening train, and will be met at the sta- tion by a delegation of the Alexandria Odd Fellows, who will escort them to their hall. After the work is exemplified, a supper will be served, and an interesting time is looked ‘or. Rev. Father McKecfry of Martinsburg, W. Va., will conduct the services and preach in St. Mary’s Catholic Church to- night. Belle Haven Council of Jr. O. U. A. M. at their meeting last night conferred the de- grees of the order upon four candidates. Mr. C. A. Strangeman of the Robert Port- ner Brewing Company has returned from Cleveland, Ohio, where he has been on busi- ness. It is probable that he will establish a brewery in Cleveland. Mr. F. E. Anderson of this city will de- liver an address, entitled “Kisses,” before the Unity Club of Washington at its meet- ing tomorrow night. Mr. Leigh Reid and wife, formerly of this city, but now of Princeton University, are in the city, on a visit to.Mr. Reid's parents. ———__ He Was There. From the Chicago Tribune. At an eayly hour in the evening three or four of the freshmen were seen stealing to their rooms quietly, unobtrusively, and keeping in the shadows as much as pos- sible. Their clothes were torn, their hats crushed, their faces smeared with blood and dirt, and two of them limped. “What's the matter, boys?” asked a fel- low-freghman, who encountered them un- expectedly. “We've been hazing the new Indian stu- dent,” answered one of the young men, after a painful pause. And the procession limped on. —_—__+0+____. Perhaps Too Candid. From To Date. A shoemaker hung out a new sign and then wondered what passersby found so amusing. His sign read as follows: “Don't go elsewhere to get cheated. Walk in here.” A graphic account of the three conspiracies to kill and one to kidnap Presiden Mason, it Lincoln, written by Victor Louis of the U.S. Wat Dey who has made a wahresst byetrgre ts subject and unearthed much interestin, terial The i ‘ma- fustra- ion of the War Department and not shown to the public and never before photographed. “The Old Olympic Games” is the title of an article by Allan Marquand, Professor of sales pA at Princeton, of espeial timeliness in view of the revival of the gamesat Athens during the present month. ‘The illustrations are “‘ restorations ”’ of famous games, by the Castaigne —a striking serics of pictures, with vicws of ‘The Chariot Race, The Wrestling Match, The Warriors’ Race. ‘The Victor Going to the Temple of Zeus, ‘The Start — The Victor in the Temple — The Finish, etc. Published by THE CENTURY Co. MAGIC AND MYSTERY. Some Tricks Explained by One Who Has Become Expert. From the Chicazo Herald. “Now, here’s an easy trick,” said Mr. Roterberg, the magician, as he picked up a battered silk hat and a few slips of paper. “Just suggest the name of some states- man.” “Grover Cleveland,” said one of the vis- itors. Mr. Roterberg wrote on one of the slips, folded it and dropped it in the hat. Lincoln, Grant, Mayor Swift and other statesmen were proposed, but when George Washing- ton’s name was mentioned the magician wrote the last slip and dropped it into the hat. Then he shook them all up and pass- ed the hat to his nearest visitor. “Take a slip,” he said. When it was un- folded it showed the name George Washing- ton. The magician tLen took the assurance of one of the visitors that the name of Washington had been proposed. “All right,” he went on. “Now, burn the slip.” He did so, and when the paper had curl- ed and twisted into ashes he rubbed some of the “charred remains” on his wrist and the name George Washington stood vut at once in clear red letters. “That's a very simple trick, although it's a bit puzzling,” explained Mr. Roterberg. “When you ask to -have the company sug- gest the names of the statesmen, or animals or anything else, take one yourself which you know will be selected. In statesmen, for instance, take, as I did, the name of George Washingten, which in a patriotic company is suré to be selected, and in se- lecting animals take horse or dog. Then when you begin to write the slips put cn all of them the name you have selected in- stead of the others proposed, so that when you pass the hat to one person to select . slip you are sure of the name that is on we'll ‘Now, producing the handwriting on the varm fs just as simple. About tive minutes before you do the trick, trace with milk the name you want to appear and let the milk dry. Rubbing on the ashes then brings it out in red, and to any one who does not know the trick it is all exceedingly mys- terious. “Here's another neat Iittle trick,” went on Mr. Roterberg, “‘to make this coin pess through a magician’s wand, through a pack of cards, and drop into a glass on which the cards are resting.” Mr. Roterberg then placed his glass on the table, rested the cards over the glass and stood his wand perpendicularly on the cards. “Here's the coin,” he said, holding it in his left hand and appearing to take it in his right. “Now, watch it go.” He hit the top of his wand a crack with his right hand, and instantly there was a jingling, and a coin dropped out of the pack of cards and im the glass. But it wasn't the coin Mr. Roterberg exhibited at firs ‘That he still held in his left hand. The one that dropped into the glass had rested securely in a couple of slits in the bottom card until the downward pressure from the wand bent the cards and released the coin, A little dexterity in handling the cards makes it impossible to discover the coin in the pack, and a few words about the “wand” and “magic,"” and so on, add much to the bewilderment and the interest. Another clever trick that seems to call for an exertion of magnetic force and bas a@ very mysterious look is that of making a lead pencil rise to a perpendicular posi- tion after placing it horizontally from the palm to the slightly bent finger tips. The operator passes the finger tips of his other hand close over the pencil, as Svengali Goes over Trilby when he hypnotizes her in the play, and as he does so, the pencil} rises from its horizontal to a perpedicular position. The trick has the appearance of great mystery, but in reality is extremely simple. To perform it a pencil with a rub- ber eraser should be used. Push a needle from which the temper has been taken through the eraser and leave just enough out at the end to bend into an almost in- | visible hook. In placing the pencil in the palm push this small hook under the skin. | Then put the other end on the finger tips. and the rest is simple. The opening of the palm, which tightens the skin, raises the pencil, and the mystic passes of the other hand and the talk about personal magnet. ism serve nicely to deceive the spectators. Columns have been written about the trick, and all kinds of magnetic swindlers have made their reputations on simpler thin, Making a handkerchief disappear from Gladness Comes Wit a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. 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